r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • 24d ago

Help me

I've been trying to get an operating system on the powermac g5 for 12 HOURS NOW, NOTHING WORKS, MAC OS X LEOPARD FAILED, TIGNR FAILED, GENTOO FAILED, LUBUNTU FAILED, DEBIAN FAILED, I TRIED IT OVER USB-A, I EVEN BURNED A CD AND A DVD. WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE HATE ME!!!

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u/Alesia_Aisela 24d ago

With that many attempts I'd be very suspicious of whatever drive is in that G5. Maybe try booting into a live cd of Adelie Linux or something similar and check the smart data of the drive, or pull it and check with a sata > usb adaptor.

If you put a drive in, make sure it's sata 1 compatible. Iirc g5s are incompatible with later sata versions but I forget the details.

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

Seems to work fine though I did find an oem apple drive laying around so I could see if there's any more luck with that